Pauahi 'O Kalani (Pauahi, The Royal One) - by Queen Lili`uokalani
- Noho ana ka wahine i ke anu o Mana
- Mahalo i ka nani nohea o ka nahele
- Mahalo i ka nani nohea o ka nahele
- Ua `ike i na paia `a`ala ho`i o Puna
- Ua lei na maile o Pana`ewa ho`i
- Ua lei na maile o Pana`ewa ho`i
- Ho`i ana no na`e ke aloha i na kini
- I ke one hanau i ka home i ke kaona
- I ke one hanau i ka home i ke kaona
- Hui:
- E ola `o Kalani e Pauahi lani nui
- A kau i ka pua `ane`ane
- E ola `o Kalani e Pauahi lani nui
- E ola loa no a kau i ka wekiu
- E ola `o Kalani e Pauahi lani nui
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- Our lady is there in the coolness of Mana
- Admiring the beauty and the glories of the forest
- Our lady is there in the coolness of Mana
- She knows the fragrances of
Puna`s bowers
- She has worn the maile from Pana`ewa
- She has worn the maile from Pana`ewa
- Her loving thoughts return to
love her kin
- To her home, her birthplace, she is returning
- To her home, her birthplace, she is returning
- Chorus:
- Live, Oh Highness, Pauahi, great royal one
- 'Til time shall no more
- Live, Oh Highness, Pauahi, great royal one
- Live long, in truth, supreme in excellence
- Live, Oh Highness, Pauahi, great royal one
Source: Mana and Puna are districts on the big island of Hawaii. Panaewa is a forest in the Hilo district. Lydia Kamakaeha, later, Queen Lili`uokalani, the hanai daughter of High Chief Paki and High Chiefess Konia composed this song for Pauahi, her foster sister. Pauahi was the great-granddaughter of Kamehameha I and was named for her aunt, who was rescued from a fire as a baby. Pauahi means: finished fire, destroyed by fire, burned. This aunt was the mother of Ruth Ke`elikolani. Ruth and Pauahi were very close and when Ruth died in 1883, at age of 57, of heart disease, she left the bulk of her estate to her cousin, Pauahi, 353,000 acres of Kamehameha lands. When her parents died, Paki in 1855 and Konia in 1857, Pauahi inherited all of their lands on Oahu, Kona and Kauai, over 16,000 acres. From another aunt `Akahi, she inherited 9,557 acres. Her total inheritance was over 400,000 acres of royal lands. With this vast estate Pauahi directed her trustees to establish schools for Hawaiian children. This legacy for the future was left by a Princess not blessed with children of her own. Pauahi died of cancer, 1884, at age 52. The Kamehameha Schools, beneficary of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate was started in 1887.
Hanai Sisters 1854 Bernice Pauahi, age 23 - Lydia Kamakaeha, age 16